Alienware Gaming Notebook Offers Overclocking

Alienware joined parent Dell in offering a PC with a factory-overclocked processor, launching the Area-51 m5790 notebook on Thursday.

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Alienware joined parent Dell in offering a PC with a factory-overclocked processor, launching the Area-51 m5790 notebook on Thursday.

Like the Dell XPS 720 H2C, the laptop includes a "stock overclocked" processor option from Intel to achieve new levels of performance, in addition to more conservative offerings. The base price starts at $1,299.

However, like most OEMs, that base price includes a rather unacceptable configuration, especially for a gaming PC: a 1.66-GHz T5500 processor, just 512 Mbytes of RAM,a 60-Gbyte hard drive, a 24X CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive, and a 256-Mbyte-equipped Nvidia GeForce Go 7600.

The standard processor options top out at 2.33 GHz, T7600 Core 2 Duo chip, a $700 upgrade. But for an additional $100 (or $800 over the base price) users can opt for the 2.66-GHz T7600G, an overclocked chip. Users also have the option of upgrading up to a 256MB ATI Mobility Radeon X1900 graphics chip.

In an interesting twist, the company won't even offer a free upgrade to Windows Vista with the basic Windows XP configuration. Instead, a customer must pay $100 to upgrade the basic system from Windows XP Home to Windows XP Pro, and then receive the upgrade certificate, according to the company's configuration page.

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